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The Crucible: Summary
<view this essay>.... that John may fall in love with Abby.
When Abigal learns that this method does not work, she starts telling people that Elizabeth is a which just so she can get John Proctor. An example "Abigal's Jealouey is euident to belive she leeds her uncles for I would not be her slave.
Next Rev. Paris, the minister of Salem is a weathly man. He isalso paranoid because he belives that his ministry is in jeopardy and he is mostly concered about his status. Paris is obviosly a hypocrite. He is supposed to serve God and his fellow man, but he is materialistic and petty.Instead Paris is also a selfcentered and greedy " don't a minister deserve a house to live in"(30)
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Odysseus Personal Qualities (f
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Ernist Hemingway
<view this essay>.... form of nature he must conquer. Earlier in the story, the first part of nature is himself, for which he must fight off his hunger. This is a harsh part of the story. He manages though to get a few bites in the form of flying fish and dolphin of which he would like to have salt on. This part of the story tells of a cold and harsh sea, that is, one that has value and mystery as well as death and danger. It has commercial value as well as the population of life in it. It is dark and treacherous though, and every day there is a challenge. A similar story tells about a tidal pool with life called `Cannery Road'. This part of the story has to deal with figures of C .....
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Song Of Solomon
<view this essay>.... invited Daedalus to Crete to build him a labyrinth, and when it was completed, Mines jailed him within it. In order to escape, Daedalus built two sets of wings - one pair for himself, and the other for his son, Icarus- using wax and feathers, which they used to fly off from Crete. On their journey to Athens, Icarus decided to try to challenge the sun, even though his father had warned him that if he got too near to the sea his wings would dampen and fall apart, or if he got too close to the sun, the wax in his wings would melt, and he would lose the ability to fly. Ignoring Daedalus' warnings, Icarus flew too high and the sun melted the wax that held his w .....
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Jay Gatsby: The Dissolution Of A Dream
<view this essay>.... and with a keen tenderness which in the end makes his tragedy
a deeply moving one.
Jay Gatsby is a crook, a bootlegger who has involved himself with
swindlers like Meyer Wolfsheim, the man who fixed the 1919 World Series.
He has committed crimes in order to buy the house he feels he needs to win
the woman he loves. In chapter five Nick says, "...and I think he
revalued everything in his house according to the measure of response it
drew from her well-loved eyes." Everything in Gatsby's house is the zenith
of his dreams, and when Daisy enters Gatsby's house the material things
seem to lose their life. Daisy represents a dreamlike, heavenly presence
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The "Hemingway Hero"
<view this essay>.... most dearly. All her relationships occur in a period of months, as Brett either accepts or rejects certain values or traits of each man. Brett, as a dynamic and self-controlled woman, and her four love interests help demonstrate Hemingway's standard definition of a man and/or masculinity. Each man Brett has a relationship with in the novel possesses distinct qualities that enable Hemingway to explore what it is to truly be a man. The Hemingway man thus presented is a man of action, of self-discipline and self-reliance, and of strength and courage to confront all weaknesses, fears, failures, and even death.
Jake Barnes, as the narrator and supposed hero of t .....
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Burry My Heart At Wounded Knee
<view this essay>.... also dying along the way.
It is also made clear that the savage atrocities blamed on the Indians. When looked at historically truly must be blamed on the whites. They paid up to twenty-five dollars as a bounty for Indian scalps, before the Indians ever took a single one for trophies. The whites were also responsible for the first mutilations of corpses, the Indians just folowed suit off the method’s they witnessed for interrogation and trophies.
There was an underlying prejudice against Indians; their skin color made it easy to identify their race. They were prohibited from many jobs and professions even El Parker, a very well educated Native American, .....
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The Imperial Aspect Of Heart O
<view this essay>.... majority of Europeans who, at the time, favored overseas expansionism. Imperialism is the central focus of the novella revealed through the protagonist’s and antagonists perspectives.
While passing through the Thames with a group of other sailors, Marlow reminisces about how the land was once a place of darkness and uncivilized inhabitants. Beginning his story at dusk and finishing it in full darkness, Marlow speaks of how his dear aunt commissioned him a job aboard the fleet and of how he was sent down as an “emissary of light” to bring solace and transformation to an otherwise backward nation. His responsibility to the people of the Co .....
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